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24 Mar, 5 tweets, 5 min read
3 states. 7 days. Trans lives are at stake. Let’s have a @TransWeekofAction ahead of #TransDayOfVisibility. @chasestrangio and I want you to get involved to stop these laws.

March 24-25: Arkansas
March 26-28: South Dakota
March 29-31: Alabama

More at: bit.ly/TWOVA21
Today’s work on Arkansas:
1) Share this info widely.
2) Tweet, call & email Arkansas @AsaHutchinson asking him to veto HB 1570 & SB 354.
3) Elevate & donate to @intransitiveAR, a leading organization in this fight against these laws.
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#TransWeekofAction #DefendTransRights
Learn more about the disgusting legislation that’s up for passage in Arkansas and Tennessee here. advocate.com/transgender/20…
Trans women and girls deserve to play sports without being policed, @AsaHutchinson. HB 1570 & SB 354 are inhumane. #DefendTransRights
Day 2: We’re keeping the pressure on Gov. Asa Hutchinson. Take 10 mins to call and email asking him to veto HB 1570 and SB 354 once they reach his desk. More info via #linkinbio. #ProtectTransYouth #LetKidsPlay #DefendTransRights #TransWeekofAction #tdov

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23 Mar
Today is the sixth anniversary of Blake Brockington’s death by suicide. This forever-young (18 years old) Black trans man’s story is a testament to why we must support, encourage, and #ProtectTransYouth as they come into their identity.
Blake became an activist after being elected North Carolina’s first openly trans high school homecoming king a year before his death in 2015.
The publicity at that time took a huge toll on him, but he used his new platform to advocate for the LGBTQ community. He endured hate, particularly online, that made it, in his words, the “hardest part of his journey.”
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6 Jul 20
It’s easy for cis folk to call out J.K. Rowling’s transphobia + not acknowledge their own. How do you make trans folks lives less violent outside of that? How do you shift the institutions you’re a part of so they’re less transphobic? How do you support trans leaders?
I liken it to the black squares debacle a month ago, when companies weren’t acknowledging how they are complicit in and benefit from white supremacy. We all wanted to know what they were going to do beyond that, and I ask the same here.
I'm glad folks are speaking up. Many of us have waited for a long time for you all to do it. But we need you speaking up consistently and actively destroying transphobia in whatever conversation or room you enter.
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12 Jun 20
Two Black trans women have been reported dead this week. Dominique “Rem’mie” Fells of Philadelphia, PA and Riah Milton of Liberty Township, Ohio. #RestInPower #BlackLivesMatter #BlackTransLivesMatter ImageImage
#DominiqueFells was found in a river with trauma to her head and face and severed legs.

#RiahMilton has already been misgendered and deadnamed on initial reports.
Cis folks of the Movement 4 Black Lives, the larger queer movement, and feminist movement have long failed Black trans people. It's time for a reckoning on your collective silence and inaction.
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1 Jun 20
If you are not ready to move aside and elevate Black and brown trans and queer leadership, don't invoke the names of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera this #PrideMonth.
Last #PrideMonth, I wrote about the LGBTQ+ community has never adequately dealt with how white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and other systems of oppression have corroded the aims of those original frontliners. out.com/pride/2019/5/3…
1) Community gatekeepers (powerful, mostly white, cis, able-bodied wealthy nonprofit directors, CEOs, political insiders) need to elevate grassroots Black and Brown leadership.
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11 Oct 17
Just to put things in reference... it was 5 years ago today that I came out publicly as trans and everything changed. #NationalComingOutDay
Love to folks who can live openly as who they are, all those yearning too and all those who may never get a chance to. #NationalComingOutDay
I spoke at Hofstra University last night & a young trans girl thanked me for being the only other trans woman on campus for those few hours.
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